Breach Intelligence

2,850

Total breached databases

In May 2020, the Gaming forum (Now defunct & owned by Com2uS) GAMEVIL suffered a data breach that impacted 769k members. The breach included Usernames, Email addresses, Dates of birth, IP Addresses and Passwords stored as MD5 (vBulletin) hashes. This website was breached by @donjuji.
  • Data: Birthdates Email Addresses IP Addresses Passwords Usernames
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 769,394
  • Number of lines: 769,463
  • Size: 319.83 MB
  • Passwords: MD5
  • Cracked: 0%
KlickTel is a German telephone directory and search engine. It is owned by 11880 Internet Services AG, and it is one of the most popular telephone directories in Germany. This leak was posted in Cronos forum the 4th of May 2023 by a moderator called Leaks.
  • Date: 2015
  • Domain: klicktel.de
  • Country: Germany
  • Category: Telecommunications
  • Data: Phone Numbers Physical Locations
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 22,308,316
  • Number of lines: 22,308,317
  • Size: 2.61 GB
  • Passwords: No
In 2023, an educational platform in Russia, known for providing academic-related services, experienced a significant data breach. Reports indicate that the breach exposed over 5.2 million records. Among the compromised data were email addresses, names, phone numbers, physical locations, government IDs, genders, site activity, job information, birthdates, nationalities, and education details.
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Government IDs Genders Site Activity Job Information Birthdates Nationalities Education
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 5,274,263
  • Number of lines: 5,274,269
  • Size: 3.02 GB
  • Passwords: No
April 8th, 2024, a Threat Actor operating under the moniker "USDoD" placed a large database up for sale on Breached titled: "National Public Data". They claimed it contained 2,900,000,000 records on United States citizens
  • Data: Birthdates Names Phone Numbers Physical Locations Social Security Numbers
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 2,695,681,511
  • Number of lines: 2,695,681,513
  • Size: 277.09 GB
  • Passwords: No
In August 2016, the World of Warcraft private server Paragon-Servers suffered a data breach that impacted 400k members. The breach included Usernames, Email addresses, IP Addresses and Passwords stored as SHA-1($username.$pass) hashes.
  • Data: Email Addresses IP Addresses Passwords Usernames
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 400,063
  • Number of lines: 400,101
  • Size: 30.04 MB
  • Passwords: SHA-1 Salted
  • Cracked: 0%
In April 2021, the Chilean pharmaceutical online store Salcobrand.cl, known for offering health and wellness products, experienced a data breach. The breach reportedly exposed 714,883 records. Among the compromised data were names, genders, birthdates, email addresses, and site activity.
  • Date: Apr 2021
  • Domain: salcobrand.cl
  • Country: Chile
  • Category: Healthcare
  • Records Announced: 714,883
  • Data: Email Addresses Names Genders Site Activity Birthdates
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 714,881
  • Number of lines: 714,882
  • Size: 64.62 MB
  • Passwords: No
In December 2020, the Indian Esports community GamingMonk suffered a data breach. The breach included Usernames, Full names, Email addresses, Dates of birth and Passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. In total, 609k users were affected.
  • Data: Birthdates Email Addresses Names Passwords Usernames
  • Imported:
  • Records Imported: 1,307,347
  • Number of lines: 1,307,347
  • Size: 2.45 GB
  • Passwords: BCrypt
  • Cracked: 24%

Frequently Asked Questions

A data breach is unauthorized access to data (often involving account takeover, malware, or misconfigured infrastructure). A data leak is exposure of data due to mistakes like public cloud storage, open databases, or accidental publishing. A database dump is a packaged dataset that may come from a breach, leak, scraping, or aggregation.

Change passwords for any affected accounts immediately, prioritizing email, banking, and any account that shares the same password. Enable multi-factor authentication wherever possible. Monitor your accounts for suspicious activity and consider placing a fraud alert or credit freeze if financial data was exposed.

Start with containment and verification: confirm what data was exposed, identify the entry point, rotate credentials (especially SSO, VPN, email), and enforce MFA. Then investigate affected systems, notify stakeholders as required, and harden controls to prevent recurrence. A structured incident response plan helps keep the work measurable and compliant.

Dark web monitoring helps you spot exposure signals early — before stolen data is widely reused for account takeover or targeted attacks. Monitoring complements vulnerability management by revealing when attackers already have leverage. Pair it with continuous attack surface monitoring and strong Asset Discovery to reduce blind spots.

Not always. Some datasets are old, incomplete, or derived from third parties. However, any exposure increases risk because credentials and personal data can be reused indefinitely. Treat it as a priority signal: rotate credentials, enforce MFA, review suspicious logins, and audit the systems that could have produced the data.

SynScan helps you connect the dots between attack surface exposure, vulnerabilities, and breach signals so you can prioritize remediation and reduce the chance of repeat incidents.